Please advise how to start studying physics and create a strong foundation?

Answer 1

You have to know math well.
I would work on simple problems and practice them.
Physics is very logical but takes some people time to learn
how to think in a way to grasp the concepts.

Answer 2

Math is nice and all, but remember it is merely descriptive, and NOT a basis for physics. You can write an elegant equation that creates an elegant graph and it can still be completely WRONG, and it can still completely ignore the CAUSATIVE effects.

Any scientific investigatison should begin with OBSERVATION and go from there. Find out what interests you in physics: light, sound, collisions, electromagnetic fields, particle physics, plasma and high-energy physics, superfluids, condensates and low-energy physics, some combination of the above?

Above all keep an OPEN mind and don't get locked into dogmatism. Remember, science is falsifiable. Pseudoscience ignores contradictions of theory and keeps on plowing ahead with outmoded concepts that aren't sufficiently descriptive, and which find simple counterpoints and contradictions from the actual observed data.

Always go with observation over math. If the math is beautiful, but is contradicted by the observation, the MATH may be wrong. If the math is wrong, more observation coupled with better math is needed.

You may or may not find some of the following interesting. Lately I've been on a plasma physics bender. VERY interesting stuff:

http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/plasma
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/ionization
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Glow+discharge
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/plasma+lamp
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/geomagnetic+storm
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/coronal+mass+ejection
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/solar+flare
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/birkeland+currents
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Kristian+birkeland
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/alfven+waves
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Hannes+alfven
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/electromagnetism
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/magnet

Taken together, the above makes a strong case for an alternate theory to the gravity-centric big-bang theory.

IE, plasma cosmology (most of the universe is made up of matter in the plasma state: stars, interstellar plasma, etc.)
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/plasma+cosmology
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/electric+universe+concept



If you're really interested in the above:

http://www.thunderbolts.info
http://thunderbolts.info/tpod/2006/arch06/060602plasma-galaxy.htm
http://thunderbolts.info/tpod/2006/arch06/0601255milkyway.htm
http://www.plasmacosmology.net
http://www.holoscience.com

Interesting stuff from a plasma physics/electrical engineering point of view.

Of course, then there's the currently "accepted" but often "contradicted" gravity-only theory of big bang cosmology:

http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/big+bang
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/relativity
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/dark+matter
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/dark+energy
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/gravity
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/quasar
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/pulsar
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/black+hole

Considering the much higher magnitude of the electric force when compared to that of gravity, I have to scoff slightly at gravity-centric models that ignore the electric currents so readily apparent in space. It's SO obvious when you start looking through the materials and reading up on space phenomena that much of it has direct analogies to plasma lab physics, vortexted and filamented plasma structures (I mean, we see tornadoes in space that gravity-centric astrophysicists just kind of scratch their heads at, but plasma cosmologists can explain and predict at the drop of a hat). We see filamentary structures and birkeland currents spanning light years of space. There's an interconnectedness in the universe that traditional physics seems to ignore. And I'm not talking new age "interconnectedness" I'm talking electromagnetic lines of force and indeed "circuits" in space.

But, I guess I've gone off on a tangent. So, I'll return to what I was originally saying. My only point is to "keep an open mind" and question everything. Question the premises, and if necessary re-do the experiments yourselfadn draw whatever conclusions seem apparent, whether it's the dogmatic view or a new view that fits the data better.

Only by questioning do we learn. And it's often the "contradictions" that lead to the best science. IE, we see something we don't understand, and we investigate until we DO understand it. It's contradictions thathelp us hone our models. The less contradictions, the closewe might be to a workable, descriptive, predictive model.

Anyway, once you figure out whatyou're interested in, you might take some classes at the local community college, and see if you enjoy them. Or you might simply browse/peruse some good books on the subject, or peruse http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com (pretty much every entry has a whoel bunch of links off it to other related or interesting topics, kind of a web o' knowledge; I've learned A LOT that way, simply by reading and following links to items I don't understand and then reading those). And every once in a while there's that "a ha!" moment when something clicks into place. :)

http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/particle+physics
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/plasma+(physics)
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/high+energy+physics
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/physical+chemistry
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/sound
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/acoustics
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/light
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/physics+of+waves

Answer 3

Physics is nature.
everything in the physics happend everyday in the u enviornment.
keep concentrate on your math.
to remember the physics defination apply them in the nature and try to understand the concept.
After that you will feel that physics is nothing. very simple.